Chapter 285: The empire was first established, and the world was boiling

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The Emperor retains the power to conclude treaties with other countries, as well as the right to declare war on other countries, as well as the power of supervision, impeachment, and pardon.

The Supreme Procuratorate of the Empire is a continuation of the Ming Dynasty's speech and official system, but this is different from the Ming Dynasty's speech and official system.

Although the Ming Dynasty's officials could be impeached for anything, some of the reasons for impeachment were too vain, and many of the impeachments involving personal style had nothing to do with being very illegal.

The Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office of the Reich was divided into two parts, one for prosecutors and the other for inspectors. Prosecutors are appointed by the Congress, the Cabinet, and the Supreme Court, who are primarily responsible for fighting corruption and have the power to investigate any official.

Inspectors were selected from the people, equivalent to the Ming Dynasty's speech officials, they could report any problem to any department, and they could also impeach officials, departments, and enterprises for their illegal behavior.

At the beginning of the empire, the separation of powers could not be formally implemented.

The main reason is that there are no electoral conditions, so the Congress, the cabinet, the Supreme Court of the Empire, the Supreme Procuratorate of the Empire, and the Constitution of the Empire are all controlled by Zhao Yan.

For the time being, 100 members of the National Assembly will be elected from Shandong, and the other 400 will be selected by veterans, workers, farmers, businessmen and other classes to serve as citizens with integrity and high education.

For the time being, the cabinet does not distinguish between parties and factions, and is appointed by former Shandong officials.

The Imperial Supreme Court was also appointed by Zhao Yan, and the Imperial Constitution, which had been written many years earlier, was now relatively perfect, and this set of laws had already been implemented in Shandong, but some of the details of the title had been changed. Judges must read the Imperial Constitution by heart, and the provisions of the Imperial Constitution must be set out when pronouncing judgments.

If a judge encounters a criminal regulation that is not provided for in the Imperial Constitution, he or she can apply to the Imperial Supreme Court for 'urgent trial guidance', which will pronounce the verdict, and then submit the verdict and the new decree drawn up by the Imperial Supreme Court to the National Assembly, which will vote on whether to pass it, and if it is passed, the legislation will be successful, and the decree will be added to the Constitution.

The supreme inspector of the Supreme Procuratorate of the empire was also appointed by Zhao Yan, and the list of supreme procurators has been determined, and Mao Yuanyi will serve as the temporary one. The civil ombudsman was selected from all over the country to be well-versed in the Imperial Constitution and to be an upright person. Civil supervision officials may conduct oversight without restriction on location, department, or industry.

The Ombudsman may submit a 'legislative report' to the National Assembly on the basis of social phenomena, and the legislative report may be required to legislate on legal gaps and may also request amendments to existing laws.

According to the ombudsman's report, the National Assembly will discuss the content of the legislation, and will elect the supporters and opponents for debate, and finally the National Assembly will vote on whether to pass it by the number of votes.

At the same time, the Ombudsman can make recommendations on how the departments should work, can give their voices heard to the people, and impeach any official.

Procurators inspect officials, and supervision officials supervise everything in the world, and supervision officials must make achievements within a certain period of time, otherwise they will be disqualified and replaced by others.

As a result, a perfect legislative channel has been formed, and the 'Imperial Supreme Court' and the 'Imperial Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office' submit legislative requests to the National Assembly, and then the National Assembly will decide whether to pass it, and the Cabinet can also submit legislative requests to the National Assembly.

Zhao Yan is very busy in Zhaojiabao.

At the beginning of the empire, many things needed to be built, which was different from the previous system of warlord rule. At this time, Zhao Yan wanted to build an empire for thousands of generations, rather than a traditional feudal dynasty that was chaotic and ruled.

The main reason why the feudal dynasties of the past dynasties were in chaos was that the system would be corrupted, and what Zhao Yan had to do was to establish a system that could not be corrupted.

Whether this system can be maintained or not is closely related to the quality of citizens.

In terms of the current quality of the people in the empire, it is very difficult to maintain such a system without [***], so it is necessary for Zhao Yan to implement intervention means, and in an environment where Zhao Yan can supervise, this system can be maintained without [***].

Zhao Yan's goal is to improve the quality of the whole people in his lifetime, and after he hangs up, he can continue to run the system.

Song Yingxing is the minister of the Ministry of Education, Zhao Quan is the minister of the Ministry of Finance, Tang Zhengze is the minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, and Lin Zhengyuan, Zhao Quan's deputy, is the minister of the Ministry of Industry...... The military department was headed by Zhao Yan himself, Liu Heng served as the chief of staff of the emperor's [***] department, and Li Zhi served as the deputy chief of staff of the emperor's [***] department.

The Construction Bureau quickly submitted a city plan for Yanjing, which would be centered on Zhaojiabao and then expanded to the Huangxian area.

All departments in Zhaojiabao will be relocated, and Zhaojiabao will be used as the location of the imperial palace.

The Parliament Building, the Imperial Supreme Court, the Imperial Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, and the Cabinet Administration Building are all located on the east side of the Imperial Palace, which will be built as the 'Imperial Square' to the south and the 'Imperial Museum' and the 'Imperial Library' to the west.

Although the new system has been established, the administrative method remains the same as before. It's just that Zhao Yan became the emperor, and the administrative department became a cabinet.

The efficiency of the administration is still as efficient as it used to be, and the current administration, which is mainly inclined to take over the territory of the provinces, has stopped in terms of expansion.

The westward expansion plan has stopped this year, and after advancing to the area with the vertical line with Moxi, the Nurgandus stopped expanding westward and turned to strengthen the construction of the rear.

On the American side, since the annexation of Central America, it has not continued to provoke wars, but has begun to digest the territory it has built.

At present, the empire has control over the west coast of the Americas, except for Peru, the west coast of the Americas is controlled by the empire, and the east coast is Central America and Argentina, most of which is undeveloped.

Although the pace of expansion has stopped, the pace of immigration has not stopped at all, but the number has increased, and the number of immigrants has increased to 800,000 this year, and all localities are trying to digest the land and form a popular base.

At the beginning of the current empire, there was also a new need for the division of provinces.

Zhao Yan discussed with everyone for a day, dividing the provinces of the Chinese Empire into three continents, one administrative region is Asia, the second administrative region is the northern and southern continents of the Americas, and the third administrative region is Australia.

The Asian region is divided into four administrative regions.

One is the traditional activity area of the Han people, that is, the original Ming territory. The second is the northern region, the third is the South Sea and Indochina Peninsula region, and the fourth is the Western Regions.

The traditional activity area is 16 provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Huguang, Jiangxi, Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and Taiwan.

After discussion, it was decided to split Jianghuai into two provinces, one is Anhui Province and the other is Jiangsu Province, and Hainan Island was separated from Guangdong and established as a province of Reading Power.

The traditional administrative region became eighteen provinces.

The northern region includes Mongolia, Tohoku, Korea, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Siberia.

The Northeast region is divided into three provinces, namely Liaodong Province, Jilin Province, and Heilongjiang Province, which are basically called by later generations, because this makes Zhao Yan feel more familiar.

North Korea is divided into two provinces, one in Rajang Province (North Korea) and one in South Korea Province. Hokkaido and Sakhalin Island were combined into one province and named 'Leaping Whale Province' because the two islands have developed fishery resources, especially many whales, so they are named after whales.

Later Inner Mongolia was divided into Monan Province, and Mongolia was divided into Mobei Province.

The region under the jurisdiction of the Nurgandus, that is, the Siberian region, is bounded by 50 kilometers west of Lake Baikal, and divides all of Siberia into two, and the eastern part is the 'North Sea Province', which is also known as Lake Baikal. The boundary to the west that has been advanced to the present day is named 'Snowfield Province'.

The North of Cyprus region consists of 10 provinces.

The Western Regions region consists of three provinces, which are west of Gansu. It is divided into three provinces: Qinghai Province, Tibet Province and Moxi Province.

The Nanyang region is divided into five provinces: Luzon, Java, Cochin, Malacca, and Sumatra.

The provinces in Asia add up to 36 provinces.

In Australia, it is divided into six provinces.

The Americas region is divided into South America, North America, and Central America, with the west coast of North America centered on ports and divided into five provinces, Central America divided into three provinces, and South America divided into two provinces.

There are 16 provinces in the overseas colonies, and with the addition of 36 provinces in Asia, there are 52 provinces.

Since there were too many provinces, Zhao Yan divided the provinces into three levels. The first level is the highest, and the traditional activity area of the Han people is the first-level province.

Second-tier provinces are developing provinces, and the Han people have an absolute advantage in the number of provinces, for example, Taiwan is defined as a second-class province. The third-level provinces are colonies with many alien presences.

The territory and provinces were determined, and the national flag was quickly formulated.

The national flag is designed as a tricolor with blue on the left, red on the middle, and green on the right. Blue and green occupy most of the area on the left and right, representing the sea and land.

There is a red line in the middle, representing the Han nation.

…… The establishment of the Chinese Empire plunged the whole of China into a state of jubilation.

It was the middle and low-level people who were jubilant, and the vested interests of the most Ming Dynasty were not so happy, but the general trend was like this, and it was no longer something they could change.

Thankfully, it was a peaceful change of dynasty, with no conflicts other than a decisive battle.

There are not many local conflicts, mainly because there are a large number of armed police forces in the provinces, which have strangled the stirring in the cradle.

The officials sent from Zhaojiabao successively took over the administrative power of various places, so that the people of Jiangnan tasted the first sweetness, that is, tax exemption.

The empire was founded, and the tax exemption was changed from the original ten acres back to fifty acres.

Moreover, all owed land contributions have been cancelled, and the government has also set up porridge shacks to house the old, weak, sick and disabled, retry criminals in prison, and overturn the cases of the wronged. It also accepted the people's complaints and tried the cases fairly, so that the atmosphere in various places could not help but change.

As soon as the county magistrates took office and the mess left by the officials of the previous dynasty was settled, the first thing they did was to ask the civil affairs bureau to register their household registration, then measure the acres of local fields, and announce the implementation of the "Agricultural Tax Reform Law" and the "Regulations on Industry and Commerce."

The district courts are undoubtedly the busiest, with cases being tried every day, and in addition to retrying the criminals in prison, there are also people who come to complain about the news.

The hearts of the people of the world gradually became subordinate, and the imperial order tended to be stable.

However, in terms of management, it is still not possible to say that it is precise, because the territory received is too large, there is no way to manage it precisely, and the Jiangnan area received this time is different from the previous expansion.

Although the territory is large, there are not many people, and it is relatively simple to manage, and the Jiangnan region is the area with the largest Chinese population.

Almost half of the population lives south of the Yangtze River, and it will take some time to improve the precision management in the south of the Yangtze River.

Zhao Yan's orders to local officials were to measure the acres of land, count the population, register household registration, maintain law and order, and clean up the old forces such as local tyrants.

At this time, the newspapers in Shandong were also fully cooperating with the establishment of the empire, and the "Daming Daily" was renamed "Imperial Daily" at this time.

Zhao Yan held a media Q&A meeting in Zhaojiapu.

In this media Q&A session, most of the reporters from various media appeared to be more restrained, after all, they were facing the emperor, the supreme ruler, with absolute power.

In this media Q&A, Zhao Yan expressed his vision for the future construction of the empire, mainly focusing on the elimination of occupational discrimination, equality between men and women, equality between the monarch and the people, education and other issues.

However, just as the media Q&A meeting was about to end, a beautiful reporter suddenly went crazy and asked Zhao Yan a tricky question.

"Your Majesty, what you mean by 'equality of the monarch and the people' is an idea that has never been put forward in the past. Allow me to ask whether the Empire is determined to pursue this idea and complete the separation of powers that you propose, or is it just a slogan to fool the people? ”

This beautiful reporter looked excited, looking at Zhao Yan with complicated emotions in her eyes, her name is Qian Wen, she is a lady, his father is a Jianghuai salt merchant, and was escorted to Shandong by the Jianghuai armed police for selling illicit salt, so she followed her to Shandong last year.

During her father's trial, Qian Wen came into contact with the idea of feminist revival in Shandong, and with her skills, Qian Wen soon became a reporter in the newspaper office of the newly established "Civil Rights Daily", which was a weak newspaper, and there were few reporters in total, and soon emerged in the newspaper.

At the media Q&A meeting, Qian Wen has been observing Zhao Yan's words and deeds, and the questions of various newspapers basically follow Zhao Yan's meaning, and the questions asked are not painful, and after reading it for a long time, I finally couldn't help but ask.

She saw a stable and prosperous society in Shandong, and was also exposed to the feminist ideas that made her unable to extricate herself, and she recognized Zhao Yan as a good emperor, but she was deeply skeptical of Zhao Yan's proposal for the equality of the monarch and the people.

Zhao Yan was stunned for a while, why did someone suddenly come out to stir up the situation~!

This is indeed an idea that has not existed in all dynasties, and the reason why such an idea is put forward is because the important reason for the demise of all dynasties is that the monarch is mediocre, and feudal centralization has a huge bad root. If an empire is to survive for generations, it must have a constitutional monarchy, and the premise of a constitutional monarchy is the equality of monarchs and people. The Empire, under the will to impose a constitutional monarchy, was determined to limit the prerogatives of the monarch. Zhao Yan said: "Although the constitution cannot be established overnight, the equality of the monarch and the people can be implemented immediately, and all citizens of the empire can see that the emperor does not kneel ......."

…… South Seas Jakarta.

"Extra, extra, Chongzhen abdicated, the Chinese Empire was established, Chongzhen abdicated, the Chinese Empire was established......" A newsboy excitedly waved the newspaper in his hand, which was urgently printed by the "Daming Daily" renamed "Imperial Newspaper".

…… Honolulu.

"Outside, outside, Chongzhen Zen, the general established the Chinese Empire ......"

…… The news of the founding of the Chinese Empire spread all over the world with an extra, and all the colonies of the empire received this extra, and all the colonies were boiling.

Soldiers, officials, and civilians who emigrated overseas held a carnival on the day the news broke, followed by daily newspapers from the homeland, and people had a preliminary vision of the future empire.

Politically, the future empire will strive to complete the constitutional monarchy and strive to promote education for all.

In terms of construction, efforts will be made to build infrastructure, and efforts will be made to help poor groups get out of poverty and cultivate a middle class.

…… Zhaojiabao, a large number of workers are building Zhao Yan's dormitory, and the larger Zhaojiabao will become Zhao Yan's palace.

Zhao Yan didn't want to build the palace too luxurious, but he didn't think so, Zhao Yan's identity at this time was different, but the emperor of the Chinese Empire.

The empire is vast, how can the emperor's palace be careless, so to put it mildly, Zhao Yan finally agreed to allocate 1 million yuan to build the palace.

The palace plans to build a livable garden style, and will hire a master gardener from Suzhou to guide it.

It's just that after the plan to build the palace was reported by the newspaper, many people thought that one million yuan was too little, and with Zhao Yan's financial resources at this time, he had the ability to come up with tens of millions of yuan.

After the establishment of the Chinese Empire, the whole of Shandong was immersed in warm celebrations, and suddenly heard that the funds for repairing the imperial palace were only one million yuan, and soon a national donation broke out.

In less than 10 days, more than 3 million yuan was raised in various parts of Shandong, but in areas outside Shandong, more donations were raised than in Shandong, and the funds raised in all provinces with telegraphs in the country reached 3.5 million silver dollars.

There are also provinces where the telegraph is not set up and are not counted.

Shandong was the richest region of the empire at this time, and most of the interest classes of the empire were united in Shandong.

Outside of Shandong, however, there were also large groups that supported the empire.

In the resettlement areas, many people who have not yet succeeded in developing the resettlement areas have donated their money, and although they are not rich in the resettlement areas, their lives are not hard.

Most of the resettlement areas are fertile areas with extremely rich products, and although they have not yet become wealthy and do not have much savings, the people in the resettlement areas are living very well, and there is basically no tax in the resettlement areas. Most of the people who were willing to emigrate were low-level people who lived a hard life, and their lives in the immigrant areas were like paradise, and they were all overjoyed when they heard about the establishment of the empire.

The empire has a vast territory, as an emperor of a superpower, how can he build a palace casually?

(To be continued)